Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Hanno the Navigator — Carthaginian explorer; Hanno, son of Hannibal — Carthaginian general in the First Punic War; Hanno, Messana garrison commander — Carthaginian general in The First Punic War; Hanno, son of Bomilcar — Carthaginian officer in the Second Punic War; Hasdrubal I of Carthage — Magonid king of Ancient Carthage 530–510 BC
Carthage - the most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans; Utica - earliest settlement in Africa; Hippo Diarrhytus - now Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa; Hadrumetum; Ruspina; Leptis Parva; Thapsus; Kerkouane; Zama Regia - the last place Hannibal fought and the place where his first and only ...
Many names in Carthage reflected this importance of Melqart, for example, the names Hamilcar and Bomilcar; but Ba‘l "Lord" as a name-element in Carthaginian names such as Hasdrubal and Hannibal almost certainly does not refer to Melqart but instead refers to Ba`al Hammon, chief god of Carthage, a god identified by Greeks with Cronus and by ...
Carthage: A Biography. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781003119685. Hoyos, Dexter (2019). Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome. Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 9781781593578. Miles, Richard (2010). Carthage must be destroyed: the rise and fall of an ancient Mediterranean civilization.
Neo-Punic refers to the dialect of Punic spoken after the fall of Carthage and after the Roman conquest of the former Punic territories in 146 BC. The dialect differed from the earlier Punic language, as is evident from divergent spelling compared to earlier Punic and by the use of non-Semitic names, mostly of Libyco-Berber or Iberian origin.
The name "Mago(n)" was a common masculine given name among the Carthaginian elite. It meant "Godsent". [2]The cognomen or epithet BRQ means "thunderbolt" or "shining".It is cognate with the Arabic name Barq and the Hebrew name Barak and equivalent to the Greek Keraunos, which was borne by contemporary commanders. [3]
The Punic religion, Carthaginian religion, or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion.
Carthaginian stater with the head of the goddess Tanit on the obverse, and a standing horse on the reverse, circa 350–320 BC. Carthage's commerce extended by sea throughout the Mediterranean and perhaps as far as the Canary Islands, and by land across the Sahara desert. According to Aristotle, the Carthaginians had commercial treaties with ...